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  3. Sennheiser HD 800 Redux

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    Tyll... have you got her cell phone number :rofl:

     

    first-day-on-the-job-hooker-nerdgirl-los

     

    And I bet a poorly designed amp with character and a high output impedance would be like a drunk hooker who'd blow you for free:

    Good at first, but worry some over time, 

  5. Sennheiser HD 800 Redux

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    Thats what surprised me. Having tried one in the past I would not call the sound neutral.

     

    I do get somebody liking the Rudistor as the cap coupled output and quite frankly, horrific circuit design would fix some of the HD800's issues.  Now this is doing it with a nuke than a tactical strike but the end result could be pleasing.  People sure like the Luxman amps with the HD800 and the circuits have some similarities, including the cap coupling. 

  6. Sennheiser HD 800 Redux

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    Big difference in what way positive or negative !

     

    A friend just tested my balanced beta 22 for a couple of days.

    Compared to Rudistor RP-030 and Sennheiser HDVD 800, he's preference was:

    1. RP-030 (more bass and a slight overall winner)

    2. Beta 22 (more open / transparent / neutral)

    3. HDVD 800 ("big" difference to previous two)

     

  7. Sennheiser HD 800 Redux

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    Interesting... So could it be a combination of the amps output impeadance and its damping factor?  I know there has been a lot of debate about this with conventional speakers, some say it matters others its irrelevant.  For example many claim that bass from 70's/80's vintage amps is much less controlled due to their damping factor. Amplifiers like the Accuphase E-202 had a control which ebaled you to change the damping factor, I think it had 3 setings. However; it could equally be due to the much better beefed up power supplies we tend to have today.

     

    As we all know headphones often magnify these anomolies and seem to be much more sensitive to both the electronics and source than conventional speaker set-ups

     

    Unfortunately i'm fresh out of pixie dust :rofl:  

  9. Sennheiser HD 800 Redux

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    Posted · Edited by complin

    Birgir as the GS-X is aiming to be a zero ohms output impeadance (as other headamp dynamic designs) are you suggesting the 800's need an amp with higher output impedance than this?

    Your 48 ohm adapter?

     

    I have tried the 800's with various amps claiming output inpeadances varying from 600 ohms down to 100 ohms and personally only found the 800's listenable with the very low impeadance amps (i.e > 1 ohms)

     

    Tyll's comments regarding impeadance matching seems to concur with my own listening experience but as he says it is still rather hit and miss!

    "Electrical impedance and phase curves show a nominally 300 Ohm headphone, but with a fairly large and wide primary driver resonance impedance change that peaks out at around 100Hz at 600 Ohms. Though headphone amp matching with these headphones seems a hit and miss affair, an impedance swing that large to me would indicate the need for a headphone amp with a lower than 30 Ohm output impedance--but I know it doesn't quite work that way with these headphones."

     

     

     

    Do you have a GS-X or something similar there Tyll?  It's an interesting comparison with the L-2 once you match up the output impedance. 

     

  12. Sennheiser HD 800 Redux

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    Sounds like an interesting combination worth a listen

     

    However; having just gone balanced on my HD800's I'm feeling these were just made to be run this way. Picked up a Headroom BUDA and wow where did all that extended bass come from! Almost to the level of the Audeze.

    They can still be a tad bright at too high a volume or if the recording is a a bit hot, but overall a great improvement.

    The soundstage too seems to have become much more coherant and integrated, less artificial.

    So far really enjoying what i'm hearing :dan:     

     

     

    Yes, it is wonderful.  I am really curious about the HD800s and the L-2 now though (but I really don't need another HP amp)!

  13. The Headcase Stax thread

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    Yeh the entry level Stax amp is bloody great value for money, and performs respectably with most of the range.  

    Exceptions I think are the Omega and 007 and thats where things like the BHSE and T2 really make a difference

     

    Well you want to shoot anything that even might be a zombie...  ;D  

     

    There is a giant leap there in performance though but for the price the 323S really isn't bad and the SRM-300 is far worse.  I just jumped from the 252S to the BHSE and yeah... a tiny bit of difference.  :)

  16. Best single headphone in the world

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    You left out the beats by Dr dre  :laugh:

     

    There are plenty of opinions and comparisons posted at the other place, but you wont find agreement on which is worlds best

     

    After surfing at much forums and reviews ,I came to narrow it down ;

    stax sr009

    he90/ 60

    lcd3

    mdr r10

    he500

    dt880

     

    as the worlds best headphone up to date ;

    would love to hear from readers ,their experience in comparison of those each other ;

  20. QUAD's new "FLOAT QA" headphones coming to the New York Show

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    Posted · Edited by complin

    Yes I suppose thats a possibility.  Perhaps cannibalise an existing PS2 box and substitute the larger transformers.  They look at least double the size of the originals 

    Two of these cost $520 for the cheaper type or $900 for the AM so with tax, duty and postage probably $700/Euro 550

     

     

     

    You could just build your own transformer box.  The trafo's are 1:60-80 which is high but there is probably something out there. 

     

    Edit:  I did some checking and Lundahl 9202 would work.  It's 23K/8 so 1:53 which is enough.  Should easily trump what ever transformer they are using... 

  22. QUAD's new "FLOAT QA" headphones coming to the New York Show

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    Apparently the earpiece modules are made of plywood.  I dont know how the headband is fixed so we will have to see how durable they are.

    I have to agree totally about the design, but Duggeh would have probably come up with something better  :rofl:

     

    I cant understand why they did not adapt the original design and use some updated material, perhaps the tooling costs were too great.

     

    Personally I prefer the PS2's and find them much more comfortable than the K1000's, its the pads on the temples that annoy me with the AKG's

     

    The Jecklin's I would say are a very different presentation and concept to the Omegas rather than better or worse.  Having both I enjoy them for what they are, each have their own shortcomings

     

    That's what sucks about the Floats, there is nothing to adjust so you have to have a specific head size range. They should've spent their research money figuring out an adjustable design (eg K1000 style), it would have a bigger effect on sound and comfort than anything they tried. I think you would find the PS2s to sound better than the PS0s, they sound decent to me. Certainly not on the level of the Omegas, so the new design would have to be drastically different to come close. Doesn't look like it though, it really does look like someone like our resident Duggeh had a couple hours and a few quid to spare and cooked something up on the fly. Reserving judgment on the sound until I hear it, of course.

  23. QUAD's new "FLOAT QA" headphones coming to the New York Show

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    Posted · Edited by complin

    Yeh How to take an iconic and timeless design and trash it !

     

    Apparently the new Float QA transformer greatly improves the sonic performance of the original float  

     

    I thought it was impossible to make Floats even uglier than the originals but they've somehow managed to do it. Hats off to them. Now it's a fight between them and the TakeTs.

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